My favourite quotes from Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

Never discourage anyone.....who continually makes progress, no matter how slow - Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men - Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil - Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation - Plato

The most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery rise out of the most extreme liberty - Plato

I shall assume that your silence gives consent. - Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life - Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in a country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus,the state instead of being whole is reduced to half - Plato

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die - Plato

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. - Plato

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My Academic Life

Research Publications

1. Bennett Kankuzi and Yirsaw Ayalew. An End-User Oriented Graph-Based Visualization for Spreadsheets. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on End-User Software Engineering (WEUSE '08), pages 86-90, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008. Publisher: ACM Press, ISBN: 978-1-60558-034-0, URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1370847.1370866
   
   
2. Bennett Kankuzi and Yirsaw Ayalew. A Dynamic Graph-Based Visualization for Spreadsheets. In Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pages 198–203, Innsbruck, Austria, March 2008. Publisher: ACTA Press, ISBN: 978-0-88986-725-3, URL: http://www.actapress.com/Abstract.aspx?paperId=32925
   

MSc research work (August 2007 - June 2008 [2 semesters])

1. MSc Thesis Title: "A Dynamic Graph-based Visualization for Spreadsheets"
   Supervisor: Dr. Yirsaw Ayalew, Department of Computer Science, University of Botswana
   Co-Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Kobourov, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona
   

MSc course work (August 2006 - May 2007 [2 semesters])

1. Software Engineering:
   Examinations + Term Paper + Project
   My term paper title: Software Architectures in Software Engineering
   Project: A Conference Paper Tracking System
   
   
2. Database Systems Engineering:
   Examination + Research Papers + Project
   Project: Development of a Stock-control Database System using JAVA, JDBC and Oracle 8i
   
   
3. Object-Oriented Systems:
   Examinations + Term Paper
   Java + UML (the Unified Modelling Language)
   
   
4. Computer Networking and Communications:
   Examinations + Term Papers
   Term Papers:
   Ubiquitous Wireless Networks
   Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks (ATM networks)
   
   
5. Distributed Computing Systems:
   Examinations + Project
   Project: Development of a Partial Order Group Communication System Using Java/CORBA
   
   
6. Decision Support Information Systems:
   Examinations + Software Implementation
   Project: Development of a SMART based model for selecting a viable sea connection link for Malawi
   
   
7. Web Engineering:
   Examinations + Project
   Project: Implementation of a Web Application using PHP and MySQL
   
   
8. Computing Research Methods:
   Analysis and Synthesis of Journal Papers in Computer Science
   Research Paper: A Review of the Theory of Computation
   

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